Joseph Previte ([log in to unmask]) wrote of Szell:
>His blistering Tchaikovsky 4th on London. Story goes that on playback, the
>producer (I seem to think it was Legge) played back the tape at a low level
>spurning Szell to a fury. He then whipped the orchestra to a frenzy and
>hence this recording of the 4th.
Right, except that it was John Culshaw (it's a Decca recording).
Deryk Barker
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